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> EDIT: would love to hear opposing downvoting views. our votes are already digital and tamperable So instead of making them less tamperable you instead want t
by nullc 5y ago
> EDIT: would love to hear opposing downvoting views. our votes are already digital and tamperable
So instead of making them less tamperable you instead want to make it seamless to buy and sell votes as well as less private?
Blockchains solve precisely zero of the hard problems in voting, and instead add tons of problems.
Cryptography for voting? Absolutely-- sure. There is plenty that cryptography has to offer, but not the blockchain part. Bitcoin is useful, but blockchain voting is a receipt for corruption.
- Kalanos 5y agowhat problems would it add? you haven't actually made a point yet. the blockchain would provide a tamper-proof record of each vote. that is an improvement. i don't understand what benefits hashing would add.
- nullc 5y agoA public tamper-proof record of each vote, unless it's extremely carefully constructed would deeply undermine voting because it would make it extremely easy to buy or coerce votes: "Vote the way I say or you're fired". ... you also get awesome effects like letting miners simply censor votes they don't like. If you just want to make sure votes aren't being discarded there are thousands of ways to accomplish that, including, e.g. sending receipts to the candidates or their parties themselves. Adding a public blockchain to it doesn't solve any issue that isn't solved with simpler and safer mechanisms, it's the absolute worst of cargo-cult engineering.